pleurer comme une Madeleine
\plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\
The verdict
“pleurer comme une Madeleine” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 27
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pleurer abondamment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pleurer comme une Madeleine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\ |
| Letters | 27 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pleurer comme une Madeleine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pleurer comme une Madeleine is 27 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plœ.ʁe kɔ.m‿yn ma.dlɛn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pleurer abondamment.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pleurer comme une Madeleine in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pleurer comme une Madeleine, spelled P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Pleurer abondamment.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pleurer comme une Madeleine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-E-U-R-E-R- -C-O-M-M-E- -U-N-E- -M-A-D-E-L-E-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.